Yes, we failed to change the default password on the cameras we installed. Someone managed to get ahold of the IP addresses, and guess the login and password. We escaped with only minor headaches, as all that happened was that they uploaded a few “overlay” images that appeared on some of the camera feeds, and [...]
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Technology trip-ups
The wave tank area was the latest to get its cameras rejiggered and microphones installed for testing, now that the permanent wave tanks are installed. Laura and I had a heck of a time logging in to the cameras to see their online feeds and hear the mics, however. So we did some troubleshooting, since [...]
007 Training: My new life as a spy
If you google “record phone call” or “digital audio recorder+phone,” you may end up watching spy videos. Thanks for the entertaining spy videos Google, but I’m just trying to do my thesis. I’m trying to figure out how to record my phone interviews, and this won’t be done secretly. The OSU Student Media Services desk [...]
Exhibit or research platform?
Our climate change “exhibit” is rapidly losing its primacy as an exhibit on which we do research to instead becoming a research platform that we set up as an exhibit. The original plan was to design an exhibit on a multitouch table around climate change and research, among other things, how users interact and what [...]
Camera Housekeeping
With all the new wave exhibit work, visitor center maintenance, server changes and audio testing that has been going on in the last few months, Mark, Katie and I realized that the Milestone system that runs the cameras and stores the video data is in need of a little TLC. Next week we will be [...]
Analyze this
And now it comes to this: thesis data analysis. I am doing both qualitative analysis of the interviews and quantitative analysis for the eye-tracking, mostly. However, I will also quantify some of the interview coding and “qualify” the eye-tracking data, mainly while I analyze the paths and orders in which people view the images. So [...]
Data collecting … across the universe*
Or at least across the globe, for now. One of the major goals of this project is building a platform that is mobile, both around the science center and beyond. So as I travel this holiday season, I’ll be testing some of these tools on the road, as we prepare for visiting scholars. We want [...]
Tech notes
Here’s a roundup of some of our technology testing and progress lately. First, reflections from our partners Dr. Jim Kisiel and Tamara Galvan at California State University, Long Beach. Tamara recently tested the iPad and QuestionPro/Survey Pocket, Looxcie cameras and a few other apps to conduct surveys in the Long Beach Aquarium, which doesn’t have [...]
Coming to the breaking point
And I don’t just mean Thanksgiving! Lately, I’ve run across an exhibit, a discussion, and now an article on things wearing down and breaking, so I figured that meant it was time for a blog post. It started with my visit to the Exploratorium, who find that stuff breaks, sometimes unexpectedly. Master tinkerers and builders [...]
Our PHRED friends
A new partnership with the Philomath (pronounced fill-OH-muth for you out-of-town readers) High Robotics Engineering Division (PHRED) helped the HMSC Free-Choice learning lab overcome a major information design hurdle. An on-going challenge for our observation system is recording usage of small, non-electronic moveable exhibit components – think bones, shells, levers, and spinning wheels. The Philomath [...]